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by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

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Though they are officially

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non-profit organizations,
Catholic Charities, Lutheran
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Social Services, and several
other Christian organizations
are profiting from lucrative contracts with the federal government
to resettle refugees in the United States.
Of the 100,000 refugees resettled in the United States in 2014 under the Refugee
Resettlement program, an estimated 40 percent were Muslims.

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In FY 2015, the State Department, through the Bureau of Population, Refugees and
Migration and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, spent more than $1 billion on these
programs, which settled international refugees vetted by the United Nations High
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Commission on International Refugees in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The
federal government spent hundreds of millions of dollars more than that on refugees,
however. The Department of Health and Human Services also provided a number of
entitlements to these refugees.
Much of this $1 billion in annual revenue goes to voluntary agencies (VOLAGs), several of
which are Christian non-profits, such as Catholic Charities, Lutheran Immigration and
Refugee Service, World Relief Corporation, Church World Service, and Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Service of the Episcopal Church of the USA. (also referred to as
Episcopal Migration Ministries), who are contracted on behalf of the government to help
these refugees get settled in their new homes in America.
Five of the top nine VOLAGs are Christian non-profits. The other four are Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and
Immigrants, and the Ethiopian Community Development Council.

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After providing three to four months of resettlement services to these refugees, having
been well compensated for their assistance services, these Christian non-profit VOLAGS
stop providing services and are not required to keep track of their location within the
United States.

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As Ann Corcoran wrote recently at Refugee Resettlement Watch, the arrangement benefits
the VOLAGs but provides little comfort to Americans worried about the national security
implications of bringing in so many unvetted refugees:
Refugee resettlementis profitable to the organizations involved in it. They receive
money from the federal government for each refugee they bring over. They have
almost no real responsibilities for these refugees. After 4 months the sponsoring
organization is not even required to know where the refugee lives.
A good percentage of the revenues of these Christian non-profit organizations, many of
which were originally established to provide charitable services to the poor already within
local American communities, now comes from their work as subcontractors to the federal
government to relocate these foreign, often Muslim, refugees.
In effect, critics argue, these VOLAGS have become agents of the federal government
whose new mission is to import terrorism to the United States under the false flag of
Christian compassion.
As Refugee Resettlement Watch reported, there are multiple ways for these VOLAGs to
generate revenue from this program:
a. $1,850 per refugee (including children) from the State Department.
b. Up to $2,200 for each refugee by participating in a U.S. DHHS program known as
Matching Grant. To get the $2,200, the Volag need only show it spent $200 and gave
away $800 worth of donated clothes, furniture, or cars.
c. The Volag pockets 25 percent of every transportation loan it collects from refugees
it sponsors.
d. All Volag expenses and overhead in the Washington, DC HQ are paid by the U.S.
government.
e. For their refugee programs, Volags collect money from all federal grant programs
Marriage Initiative, Faith-based, Ownership Society etc., as well as from various
state and local grants.
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support for traditional charity works to put more effort into resettlement. It uses
collection offerings to promote the refugee resettlement program.
Despiteclaims that these Muslim refugees have been vetted to keep out terrorists,
numerous reports, including those by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI,
indicate that this process is flawed, especially for refugees from countries like Syria, where
virtually no data bases to perform background checks exist.
Of the approximately 2,000 Syrian refugees who have come to the United States over the
past several years, an estimated 97 percent are Muslim.
President Obama wants to bring in an additional 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United
States in FY 2016 (which ends September 30, 2016). At least 26 governors and the vast
majority of Americans oppose this plan on national security grounds, but the President is
doubling down.
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President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of the far left Democrats and Speaker Paul
Ryan of the establishment GOP use the same language to dismiss opposition to the entry
of these almost-exclusively-Muslim Syrian refugees.
Thats not who we are, they say, claiming that it is Un-American to deny entry to the
country to a group of refugees, 97 percent of whom are Muslim, and potentially 10 percent
are ISIS sympathizers.

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Obama, Warren, and Ryan all fail to acknowledge that the current population of the
United States is barely one percent Muslim.
The likelihood that some number of these Muslim refugeeswhether from Syria, Iraq,
Somalia, or any of the other predominantly Muslim countries that send refugees to the
United Statesare Islamist terrorists is very high.
For instance, a recent Pew Research Poll indicated that approximately 14 percent of
Muslims in 11 major Muslim majority countries sympathize with ISIS.

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Another recent poll indicated that 13 percent of Syrian refugees coming to the United
States have a positive or positive to some extent view of ISIS.
Since 1980, an estimated three million international refugees have entered the United
States through this program, or approximately 100,000 per year for 35 years. Until 1990,
very few Muslims were brought in. Since then, about 40 percent of refugees have been
Muslim. In those 25 years, more than one million Muslims have been brought to the
United States through this program.
Over the past five years, 680,000 green cards have been issued to Muslim immigrants (not
all of whom came to the U.S. under the Refugee Resettlement program).
In 12 states that are designated as participants in Wilson Fish alternative programs,
these programs are subcontracted exclusively to the VOLAGs. This program was
established under the 1984 Wilson Fish amendment to the Immigration and
Naturalization Act.
This federal government website describes the program, as well as the VOLAGs in the 12
Wilson Fish states where they operate with virtually no oversight by the governments of
the local states. Those VOLAGs, by state, are:

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Alabama: USCCB Catholic Social Services

Alaska: USCCB Catholic Social Services
Colorado: Colorado Department of Human Services
Idaho: Janus Inc. (formerly Mountain States Group), Idaho Office for Refugees
Kentucky: USCCB Catholic Charities of Louisville, Kentucky Office for Refugees
Louisiana: USCCB Catholic Charities Diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana Office for
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Nevada: USCCB Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada

North Dakota: LIRS Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota
San Diego County, CA: USCCB Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego
South Dakota: LIRS Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota
Tennessee: USCCB Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Tennessee Office for Refugees

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VOLAGs are also used as subcontractors in some of the 37 states (and the District of
Columbia) where these programs are administered by the state governments, where
VOLAG subcontractors are also involved.
The irony is that these leading private Christian charitable organizations which were
organized to serve their local communities have now really lost much of their original
purpose and have become agents and supporters of the Federal government bureaucracys
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They are now no longer agents of private charity, but a new version of federal government
Beltway Bandits.
That they are now no longer private Christian charities but instead well paid
subcontractors of the federal governnment who want to keep the national security
threatening Refugee Resettlement that pays them going is demonstrated by how heavily
they rely on federal funding.
Catholic Charities has grown into a huge $3.8 billion operation with more than 65,000
employees. Half of its funding$2 billioncomes from the Federal Government, through
the Office of Faith Based Initiatives. A portion that funding estimated at in excess of $70
million, is part of the more than $1 billion the Federal Government Spends on the Refugee
Resettlement program
As Refugee Resettlement Watch reportedrecently after examining FY 2012 annual reports
of these five Christian non-profits, they would all be hurt severely if the $1 billion refugee
resettlement gravy train ended for them:
98 percent ($69 million) of Catholic Charities $70 million refugee resettlement budget
comes from the federal government.
60 percent ($45 million) of Church World Services entire $76 million budget comes from

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the federal government.

97 percent ($42 million) of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services $43 million
budget comes from the federal government.
68 percent ($38 million) of World Reliefs $56 million budget comes from the federal
government.
As for Episcopal Migration Ministries, Refugee Resettlement Watch reported:
This gets tricky. Apparently EMM (or now known as Domestic and Foreign
Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America), does not produce
a Form 990 (no response from them to a recent inquiry was received) nor do they
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The only accounting we could find is an independent auditors report that reveals
they received $17,365,325 from the federal government for their refugee program in
2012.
Further examination by a qualified accountant would be needed to find out how they
spent the $17 million.

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The national security concerns surrounding the Syrian refugees has not prompted these
Christian non-profit VOLAGs to reconsider their refugee resettlement programs. Instead,
as Refugee Resettlement Watch reported on Friday, they have just launched a massive
public relations campaign to change the minds of the majority of Americans, whom three
major polls show oppose letting any more Syrian refugees in the country.
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